[Transcriber's note: This production is based on https://archive.org/details/fiveminutesermon02unknuoft/page/n6 Pages 46 and 47 are missing from the image file. Additional citations indicated by "USCCB", are based on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Bible found at http://usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible.] {i} Five-minute Sermons for Low Masses on All Sundays Of The Year, By Priests Of The Congregation Of St. Paul. Volume II. New York: The Catholic Publication Society Co., 9 Barclay Street. London: Burns & Oates. 1886 {ii} Copyright, 1886, by I. T. Hecker. All Rights Reserved. {iii} Preface. Repeated and urgent requests from both clergy and laity have induced the publication of this second volume of Five-Minute Sermons. They have all been preached in the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, and published weekly in the _Catholic Review_. Choice has been made of such as are really little sermons, since there are many excellent manuals from which purely doctrinal instructions may be prepared. Yet they all contain, it is hoped, a solid basis of doctrine plainly put and appropriately illustrated. The main object is, however, to edify, to quicken the moral perceptions, and to move in a reasonable degree the religious emotions. Nearly all of these sermons may serve as skeletons for discourses of greater length; a fuller treatment of the topics, by means of familiar illustrations and more copious extracts from Scripture, will fit them for use at High Mass, or on Sunday evenings. ----------------------------- {iv} {v} Contents. First Sunday of Advent: Sermon I. The Spirit of Advent, 14 Sermon II. The Graces of Advent, 16 Sermon III. St. John the Baptist, 18 Second Sunday of Advent: Sermon IV. Fair-weather Christians, 23 Sermon V. The Immaculate Conception, 25 Sermon VI. The Total Abstinence Pledge, 28 Third Sunday of Advent: Sermon VII. Bad Company, 32 Sermon VIII. The Voice in the Wilderness, 34 Sermon IX. Penance, 37 Fourth Sunday of Advent: Sermon X. Fruits of Penance, 41 Sermon XI. Preparation for Christmas, 43 Sermon XII. Christmas Eve, 46 Sunday within the Octave of Christmas: Sermon XIII. Christmas Joy, 50 Sermon XIV. New Year's Eve, 52 Sermon XV. The Feast of the Holy Innocents, 55 The Epiphany: Sermon XVI. The Testimony of the Spirit, 59 Sermon XVII. Following God's Guidance, 63 {6}